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Continuing Promise Delivers Project Handclasp Donations to Peru
Monday, June 16, 2008 - 00:00
Continuing Promise (CP) 2008 mission leaders, embarked aboard USS Boxer (LHD 4), delivered several pallets of donated goods to Peruvian officials on behalf of Project Handclasp, in support of the Humanitarian Civic Assistance (HCA) mission, June 11.
Continuing Promise Reinforces Peru's Preventative Medicine Program
Monday, June 16, 2008 - 00:00
Continuing Promise (CP) 2008’s Preventative Medicine Team held a public health and sanitation seminar for partner-nation citizens from Juara, Peru, June 12, in support of USS Boxer’s (LHD 4) humanitarian civic assistance (HCA) mission.
Continuing Promise Seabees Camp On-Site to Get the Job Done
Monday, June 16, 2008 - 00:00
Seabees from Construction Battalion Maintenance Unit (CBMU) 303 and Naval Mobile Construction Battalion (NMCB) 5, both embarked aboard USS Boxer (LHD 4), camped out at Guillermo Enrique Billinghurst school in Barranca, Peru, during renovations June 10-13
Tijuana Strip Turns Ghostly In Wake of Drug Violence
Monday, June 16, 2008 - 00:00
Daylight gun battles, beheadings and kidnappings have scared away tourists, forced layoffs and turned some areas of once-vibrant Mexican border cities into virtual ghost towns
Colombia's guerrillas: between past and future
Monday, June 16, 2008 - 00:00
The struggle of Colombia's Farc guerrillas has lasted more than four decades. But the pressures it is now facing - symbolised by the death of its legendary co-founder Manuel Marulanda - present the movement with a historic choice
Bolivia's racial onslaught
Monday, June 16, 2008 - 00:00
Bolivian socialist politician Cesar Navarro - ambushed by a mob in his country's constitutional capital - explains how the right is using racist rhetoric to build an atmosphere of violence
Panama City: A boomtown with growing pains
Monday, June 16, 2008 - 00:00
The canal expansion and an influx of firms are transforming the city, but its infrastructure is sorely inadequate
Fidel's Heir
Monday, June 16, 2008 - 00:00
The present in Latin America may be analogous to the nineteen-sixties, when the U.S. was mired in Vietnam and deeply unpopular internationally, and Fidel Castro and Che Guevara (another hero of Chavez’s) saw an opportunity to foment guerrilla insurgenci
Human cost of Brazil's biofuels boom
Monday, June 16, 2008 - 00:00
Many of those cutting the sugar cane used to make the fuel are said to endure primitive conditions.
Hugo Chavez plans "working meeting" with Fidel today
Monday, June 16, 2008 - 00:00
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said he planned to make one of his frequent visits to ailing friend and ally Fidel Castro today.

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